TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (WBRC) – Three agencies held a funeral Wednesday for those who never had one so many years ago in Tuscaloosa.
The University of Alabama (UA), Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT), and the Alabama Department of Mental Health dedicated the reburial of 89 graves on Harper Court behind UA.
These were the graves of former mental health patients at Bryce Hospital, some graves dated back to the mid-1800s. Their graves were removed from the original location off Jack Warner Parkway to help prepare for the widening of the new Woosley Finnell Bridge across the Black Warrior River. The process took nearly two years.
“May this memorial be a place of remembrance, and may our actions today remind future generations that no persons regardless of illness, their circumstances of passing of time should ever be forgotten,” said Alabama Department of Mental Health commissioner Kimberly Boswell…